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[Medicine & Science] Aldrovandi, Ulisse (1522-1605) De Piscibus Libri V et de Cetis Lib. Unus.
Bologna: J.B. Bellagamba for H. Tamburino, 1613.
First edition, folio, lacking the typographical title page, illustrated throughout with small to nearly full-page woodcuts of fish, whales, eels, fantastical sea creatures, fossils, and other related subjects, one leaf with surface tear affecting the image of one fish on page fifty; minor marginal worm trail through about a dozen leaves between pages 589 through 612; bound in full contemporary sponge-decorated sheepskin, gilt-tooled spine, worn, joints cracked, rubbed, with surface scuffing; unidentified armorial bookplate and library shelf mark; 13 3/4 x 9 in.
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